Poetry

The implied or figurative meaning that a word or image carries, as distinct from its literal or explicit meaning. ( For instance “home” literally means the place one life, but often carries connotations to feelings of safety or security)

• Connotation

• Denotation

• Personification

• Apostrophe

The literal or explicit meaning that a word or image carries, as distinct from its implied or figurative meaning. Dictionary definitions are usually denotative.

• Connotation

• Metaphor

• Denotation

• Metonymy

In poetic writing the stress may be expressly on the image that is being created or envisioned

• Allusion

• Imagery

• Simile

• Synechdoche

Compares two different objects using like or as

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

A figure of speech, not meant to be factually true, in which one thing is compared or substituted for something else

• Assonance

• Metaphor

• End-stopped line

• Rhyme scheme

The attribution of human characteristics to an in animate object

• Personification

• Apostrophe

• Hyperbole

• Paradox

An address either to a person who is dead or not present, to an inanimate object or abstract concept designed in part to provide insight into the characters thoughts.

• Rhyme

• Metonymy

• Apostrophe

• Oxymoron

A figure of speech that substitutes the name of one thing with that of another with which it is closely associated in common experience

• Pun

• Metonymy

• Alliteration

• Consonance

A figure of speech in which a part signifies the whole or the whole signifies the part (For instance: “All hands on deck” hands stand for people)

• Allusion

• Synecdoche

• Consonance

• Juxtaposition

A reference, often to a historical figure, myth, or artwork, that exists outside literary work.

• Imagery

• Onomatopoeia

• Stanza

• Allusion